America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the
men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the
United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan
colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we
rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's
pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel
Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than
is apparent-that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a
nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle
Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present. Exploring
a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more
than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and
Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of
peoples-Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English-as
they struggled with one another and with their own people for
control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global
context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually
and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture
took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be
nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico. By seeing
these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely
as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals the
deepest origins of American history.
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